http://focussion.com/userphotos/

Premium accounts and awesome new features!

To be able to purchase additional servers for Focussion we've introduced the premium accounts. For a little money you support Focussion and you'll get a lot of new and awesome features like:

- Bigger photos (full width)
- Sets (multiple related photos in one photo)
- Better change to win a contest (multiple contest submissions)
- Receive more tokens
- Upload more photos
- Get rid of the advertisements
- Support us to continue developing even better features!
- And lots of other features

Of course we did not remove features for our current and future free Focussion members. So nothing will change if you plan not to support us :-)

An example of a bigger photo and a set:

We hope you'll enjoy!

See http://focussion.com/premium for more info!

by Michiel 9 july 2011 27 replies

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GlennN

Cheers Aljan. Thanks for that.
6 August 2012
Aljan

@GlennN It is working again! :-) Sorry for the inconvenience.
6 August 2012
Aljan

@GlennN Oh, that's really strange, thanks for mentioning, will dive into it. And I will get back to you once it is fixed.
6 August 2012
GlennN

@Aljan, @Michiel I'm trying to pay for your premium account and it just draws a blank screen.
I've tried this on both my iMac (F'fox v14) and Windows (IE v9).

Any ideas?
6 August 2012
Aljan

@bjorn @luc Thanks guys!
13 August 2011
Aljan

@bjorn @stacy For now, I think they do :-) And it also depends on the photo. If you have a photo with a lot of depth and it is about buildings, you can put it in architecture. The category 'other' is also available.
13 August 2011
luc

@Michiel this looks reasonable. In a few weeks, i migth sign up!
13 August 2011
bjorn

@Michiel Excellent. That certainly makes the premium accounts more interesting. And you have a promotional offer going on...
13 August 2011
bjorn

@Stacy Wouldn't those fit in the existing "Abstract & conceptual" category?
13 August 2011
Michiel

We have listened to your feedback about the gold accounts and decided to merge the two accounts into one account. So now we only have one premium account for the price of the 'old' silver account.
12 August 2011
Stacy

I think you should add a Category called something like "Lines and Shape". Maybe another one called "Depth". Just a suggestion.
12 August 2011
luc

Howmany gold/silver accounts have you sold already?
10 August 2011
Michiel

Focussion never had bigger photo sizes than the size of the current basic accounts. We did not reduce the size when introducing the premium accounts. So I think the premium accounts are a nice addition for you if you want bigger photos ;-)
19 July 2011
Niara

The only thing that really bothers me at this point is the photo size for the basic account. When I had a basic account on Flickr, I could still see a much larger format. I think 800 x 600 pixels (such as on Trekearth/Treklens) should be the minimum, or 900 pixels, such as on Photodom (Russian/English photosite), where a load of serious photographers and stunning photography can be admired. That would probably provoke more people to consider joining this website and later on to upgrade to silver or gold.

Just my 5 cents :)
19 July 2011
Michiel

@JmG We now have a setting to disable the mails when somebody favorites your photo. Your wish is our command. Try that on Flickr ;-)
15 July 2011
Michiel

@JmG I agree that you should be able to disable specific mails. We'll add a setting to disable the mail when somebody faved your photo.
15 July 2011
JmG

@Aljan well, I liked it better before, then. I prefer not knowing at all than just not being able to interact with people who like my photos. Fortunately, there are other boards where it's possible.
15 July 2011
Aljan

@JmG Before the premium accounts you would never know if someone favorited your photo, I think it's nice to know other photographers really like your photo. :-) I like it!
15 July 2011
JmG

@Michiel Thanks for your answer but this is useless to me!
I'm not on a broadband connection, I can't spend time only to search who faved, or not.

I'd rather not know at all that someone faved one of my image (because who cares anyway?).

I don't understand why you choosed to do so since every photo site on the web, in free account, let you interract with people who faved your own images! It's only "normal" to do so.
Don't you think?
13 July 2011
Michiel

@JmG In the pre-premium age there was no mail when somebody favorited your photo, so I think it's an improvement to see that somebody favorited my photos. The person who favorited the photo is not very important, but if you really want to see who it is, you have to check the favorites of all members on Focussion :)
13 July 2011
JmG

I must say that there's something I find quite "petty" with this new account thing.

If I post a photo that someone "faves", I can't know who faved it since I only have a basic account.

Well, I think that as I'm the photographer that's faved, I should nearly be the only one to know by whom whatever account I use.
13 July 2011
Aljan

@Niara The silver account is just the standard premium account which will give you the most advantages and features. And the price isn't high at all.
The gold account is also for people who really like the vision of the website and wants to support that. Large websites like Flickr has investors and a lot of money to grow (marketing, development etc), we don't have that.

I really understand that you think the price is high, but it's more about the silver accounts as you can see. I hope you will stay on Focussion with your nice work and helpful feedback!
11 July 2011
Niara

The thing which surprised me most was the price tag for a Gold account, I find it outrageous.
I have visited so many professional photo forums where the price is much lower and the amount of extra features much higher. On top of that, the activity on this website is not that high already, to express it mildly. I don't think you'll find many photographers willing to pay this amount if they can have the same or more features on other professional forums.
10 July 2011
Michiel

@luc The upload limit is to force people to think before uploading their work to Focussion. Because of the upload limit you won't see pages of photos of the same photographer. The photos you currently see is a mix of work of various photographers.

And you're not forced to get a silver account and to support Focussion. You can just continue to enjoy this site without paying. It's your own choice.
9 July 2011
luc

i dont see why you would restrict uploading of pictures at all.. i thought this site was for photographers to show their work and get comments on it. I find it very annoying that i can only upload 2 pics per 48 hours. And no, i wont pay to get silver member. Maybe i should start my own site...
9 July 2011